THE MORNING RANT: Buck Shots – 4/04/2025

My apologies, but personal obligations prevented time for much content today. But here are a few quick shots:

There are some conservative legal minds I follow on Twitter, whom I greatly admire, and I am very impressed at their efforts to document all the legal machinations going on with the rogue federal judges and their extra-constitutional interference in the Executive Branch. Unfortunately, documenting this nonsense is like trying to be the scorekeeper in a game of Calvinball. The Trump administration is trying to play by judicial rules that are constantly in flux, and outside the enumerated powers of the Constitution.

I assume the day is coming when Donald Trump will let John Roberts know that the Chief Justice had a chance to sit on that zoo judiciary of his, but now it’s too late, and those rogue judges will just be ignored going forward.

In fact, President Biden already set the precedent that the President can boldly ignore judicial rulings, including from the Supreme Court itself. In Biden’s own words, “The Supreme Court blocked me from relieving student debt. But they didn’t stop me.” Democrats, the media, and the Washington establishment were uniformly ecstatic at Biden for ignoring the Supreme Court.

Thanks to Joe Biden, President Trump has the green light to ignore not only the rogue federal judges, but also SCOTUS itself, and no one has any standing to complain. They didn’t think the new rules would ever come back to haunt them.

Did any of you see this story out of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel? “Wisconsin Trump voter, whose wife was detained by ICE, says he doesn't regret his vote”

It reminds me of this gag:

I stumbled upon this quote from Donald Kingsbury’s book “Courtship Rites.” It is a brilliant and concise corollary to Chesterton’s Gate.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back.

Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If There’s an Upright Bass in the Band, It’s Probably Going to be Good”

Ace of Spades reader “Average Guy” sent me some links to a band named “Over the Rhine” whom I was not familiar with. There is so much that is good in this song, “Beyond the Recognition.” The slide guitar and piano really create a mood.

Thank you, Average Guy

Have a great weekend.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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